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MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY Volume 89, Nos. 1/2 November 1992 CONTENTS Research Papers Paradoxical signal transduction mechanism of endothelins and sarafotoxins in cultured pituitary cells: stimula- tion of phosphoinositide turnover and inhibition of prolactin release H. Lewy, R. Galron, A. Bdolah, M. Sokolovsky and Z. Naor (Israel) Effect of cold acclimation on the expression of glucose transporter Glut 4 C. Olichon-Berthe, E. Van Obberghen and Y. Le Marchand-Brustel (France) 11 Activity of the CYP17 promoter in bovine adrenocortical cells before and after phenotypic switching D.S. Lala and P.J. Hornsby (USA) Mouse submandibular glands express an androgen-regulated transcript encoding an acidic epididymal glyco- protein-like molecule N. Mizuki and M. Kasahara (USA) Binding of sex-hormone-binding globulin (SHBG) to testicular membranes and solubilized receptors C.S. Porto, L.C. Abreu, G.L. Gunsalus and C.W. Bardin (Brazil, USA) Atrial natriuretic peptide effects in AtT-20 pituitary tumour cells A.F. Gilkes, K.B. MacKay, G. Cramb and S.B. Guild (UK) Molecular cloning of the bovine prolactin receptor and distribution of prolactin and growth hormone receptor transcripts in fetal and utero-placental tissues P. Scott, M.A. Kessler and L.A. Schuler (USA) 47 Vasopressin biosynthesis in rodent Leydig cells R. Ivell, N. Hunt, M. Hardy, H. Nicholson and B. Pickering (Germany, USA, UK) 59 Regulation of the epididymal glutathione peroxidase-like protein in the mouse: dependence upon androgens and testicular factors N. Rigaudiére, N.B. Ghyselinck, J. Faure and J.P. Dufaure (France) 67 Divergent differentiation of rat adrenocortical cells is associated with an interruption of angiotensin II-media- ted signal transduction C.D. Roskelley, K.G. Baimbridge, P.C.K. Leung and N. Auersperg (Canada) 79 Developmental expression of hepatic growth hormone receptor and insulin-like growth factor-I mRNA in the chicken J. Burnside and L.A. Cogburn (USA) 91 Steroidogenesis-inducing protein interacts with transforming growth factor-B to stimulate DNA synthesis in rat granulosa cells S.A. Khan, L.W. Shum, K. Teerds and J.H. Dorrington (Canada, Netherlands) 97 Isolation of an insulin-like growth factor II cDNA from guinea pig liver: expression and developmental regulation A. Levinovitz, G. Norstedt, S. Van den Berg, I.C.A.F. Robinson and T.J. Ekstrom (Sweden, UK) 105 Basal and gonadotrophin-releasing hormone-induced biosynthesis and release of luteinizing hormone: effect of calcium deprivation M.E. Apfelbaum (Argentina) 111 Assessment of the role of cyclic nucleotides in allatostatin-induced inhibition of juvenile hormone biosynthesis in Diploptera punctata M. Cusson, K.J. Yagi, G. Xue-Chen and S.S. Tobe (Canada) 121 Rat Sertoli cell clusterin, a,-macroglobulin, and testins: biosynthesis and differential regulation by germ cells J. Grima, C. Pineau, C.W. Bardin and C.Y. Cheng (USA) 127 The cloning of the human follicle stimulating hormone receptor and its expression in COS-7, CHO, and Y-1 cells C.A. Kelton, S.V.Y. Cheng, N.P. Nugent, R.L. Schweickhardt, J.L. Rosenthal, S.A. Overton, G.D. Wands, J.B. Kuzeja, C.A. Luchette and S.C. Chappel (USA) 141 (continued on page 3 of cover) Cited in Biological Abstracts; Current Awareness in Biological Sciences (CABS); Current Contents / Life Sciences; Excerpta Medica (EMBASE); Index Medicus; Informedicus; Pascal M PRINTED IN THE NETHERLANDS dehoe cee MOLECULAR AND CELLULAR ENDOCRINOLOGY Subscription Information 1993: vols. 89-97 in 18 issues; vols. 89 and 90 will appear in 1992 but remain the first volumes of the 1993 subscription year. Institutional Rate: IR £981.50 + IR £103.50 postage, packaging and handling. Total price IR £1085.00. 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Seppala and S. Frariks (UK, Finland) Rl Rapid increase in relaxin gene expression in early pregnancy in the pig D.K. Lobb and D.G. Porter (Canada) Notes to Authors